If you have unstaged changes in your working tree and try to
rebase, you will get the cryptic "foo: needs update"
message, but nothing else. If you have staged changes, you
get "your index is not up-to-date".
Let's improve this situation in two ways:
- for unstaged changes, let's also tell them we are
canceling the rebase, and why (in addition to the "needs
update" lines)
- for the staged changes case, let's use language that is a
little more clear to the user: their index contains
uncommitted changes
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fi
# The tree must be really really clean.
-git update-index --ignore-submodules --refresh || exit
+if ! git update-index --ignore-submodules --refresh; then
+ echo >&2 "cannot rebase: you have unstaged changes"
+ exit 1
+fi
diff=$(git diff-index --cached --name-status -r --ignore-submodules HEAD --)
case "$diff" in
-?*) echo "cannot rebase: your index is not up-to-date"
- echo "$diff"
+?*) echo >&2 "cannot rebase: your index contains uncommitted changes"
+ echo >&2 "$diff"
exit 1
;;
esac